Albayalde: I am ready to face any investigation.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Oscar Albayalde offered this advice to his detractors who continue to involve him in the “ninja cops” issue: Move on.
This after President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncements that he continues to trust the PNP chief despite an order to investigate the PNP chief.
“There is no general on the list. I’m sure of that,” the President said in his arrival speech Sunday at Davao International Airport. “”You know, Albayalde is the PNP chief. Give me a clear proof na talagang he was there on the trafficking of drugs.”
“I am ready to face an investigation to clear my name. Ever since the Senate hearings started, there has been no single proof that was shown,” Albayalde said in a television interview.
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Albayalde’s role in the “ninja cops” scheme happened in 2013 when 13 cops allegedly recycled illegal drugs seized in a sting operation. The PNP chief was the head then of the National Capital Region police.
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Director General Aaron Aquino, then the regional police director of Central Luzon, and Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group at that time, accused Albayalde during the Senate hearings that he intervened in the dismissal of the 13 cops.
Albayalde also said no photographs of the sports utility vehicles that he and other cops supposedly received have surfaced.
Retired Brigadier General Manuel Gaerlan, who investigated the 2013 case, likewise cleared Albayalde’s name during Thursday’s Senate inquiry.
